Teachers in Rhode Island currently maintain their certification by showing evidence of continuous professional development. Creating an IPlan and reviewing the IPlan of a peer is a unit-wide assignment in the School of Education for all student teachers. The steps below are designed to guide you through this process so that we can complete it efficiently.
Complete the form based on one of the lessons you taught last week. Be sure to write down specific evidence from either your lesson plan or your memory of your enactment for each assessment you give.
Use a highlighter to identify areas of your teaching/lesson that were either below standard or that you feel needs improvement
Synthesize your review by completing the following table as best your can:
What is the need?
How will improvement help your students?
How will improvement help your school?
RIBT Standard/Element Addressed?
1.
Classroom Management
safe environment conducive to learning
Implement school polices and give students a standard by which they should abide by within the school.
6.1, 6.2
2.
3.
4.
Formulate a professional development goal based the needs that you have identified. This goal should be:
measurable/observable
should lead to improvement of teaching, student achievement, and/or improvement of learning environment.
should describe new knowledge or skills that you will acquire and how that knowledge/skill will affect the school/district setting.
linked to applicable Rhode Island Beginning Teacher Standards and elements, e.g. RIBTS 2.4.
In the space below, describe your professional development goal. In a second paragraph, use the information above to provide a rationale for your goal by explaining the personal need that it will address as well as how addressing this goal benefits your students and your school.
I. Professional Development Goal
After reflecting upon my teaching thus far, I have concluded that my most imperative professional development goal would be to further develop my classroom management skills that will be cohesive within the school community. It is difficult to enter into another professional's classroom and keep their rules and polices as they expect while staying true to one's own teaching personality and developing one's own policies. This has been true as I look at my experience thus far. I have had a hard time balancing my CT's guidelines and being my own person. With this, I have failed to set my own guidelines which, in turn, has given the students the impression that I am not my own teacher.
The reason I selected this goal is because clear behavior standards will allow the students to understand the consequences of their actions as well as provide a safe community in which students can learn without the distractions of safety insecurities (RIBTS 6.1 and 6.2). I would like to create a classroom that is conducive to learning. This goal is important to myself as a beginning teacher, and to the school I will be at. While at Narragansett Pier Middle School, I have witnessed their need for an effective behavior management program that is consistent across the school. To do this, I will need to implement the school rules along with my own class policies.
Now that you have a PD goal, think about what type of learning opportunities you will participate in to address your needs. Use these links to investigate learning options:
Based on what you have found out, write a 1-2 paragraph narrative outlining at least two ways (PD categories) you will engage in engage in by the end of your first year of teaching. For each activity, explain how you think it will address the need that you have identified.
II. Professional Development Plan
My first plan of action to improve my classroom management is to brainstorm the policies and rules that I find important for my classroom. The next step is to read through the school's students handbook and fully familiarize myself with the schools expectations. I will look at each of these separately and determine which coincide with the policies that I came up with on my own. It is easier to enforce the rules that I, myself, find important. Then I will look at the combination of all of the rules/policies and determine the importance of each. It is easier to enforce rules when you know why they are important for students to follow. It is also beneficial to inform students why they are important so that they know for future reference. This also tells students that you are serious about the behaviors that you expect.
To supplement my goal, there are several outside sources I can refer to. The first being Conferences, workshops, and training sessions relating to classroom management. Some that I found that would help are "Positive behavior supports", "Transforming Out of Control behaviors in children and adolescents", "YoGuides: Creating a calm classroom environment.", and "Introduction to social thinking". These workshops will help me get ideas about controlling my students in the classroom and creating a more positive and cohesive classroom. Outside of this, I would also utilize Individual Professional learning activities. I learn a lot by performing my own research and looking within. Not every classroom management strategy is effective for everyone, so looking within myself for this professional development will help me create strategies that will coincide with my own personality and teaching styles. These days, we have vast resources on the internet. My researching articles and studies about classroom management and behaviors on the internet, I can better achieve my goals. Lastly, It is important to remember that I am never done learning. Even when I think I have mastered my classroom management skills, there is always more to improve on. Every class is different and contains different children that respond better to different strategies, So it is important that I never end my journey into developing better classroom management skills.
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Post your PD Plan to True Outcomes
Return to True Outcomes to evaluate a peer's plan the following week.
EDC 484 IPlan Peer Evaluation
Teachers in Rhode Island currently maintain their certification by showing evidence of continuous professional development. Creating an IPlan and reviewing the IPlan of a peer is a unit-wide assignment in the School of Education for all student teachers. The steps below are designed to guide you through this process so that we can complete it efficiently.Formulate a professional development goal based the needs that you have identified. This goal should be:
In the space below, describe your professional development goal. In a second paragraph, use the information above to provide a rationale for your goal by explaining the personal need that it will address as well as how addressing this goal benefits your students and your school.
I. Professional Development Goal
After reflecting upon my teaching thus far, I have concluded that my most imperative professional development goal would be to further develop my classroom management skills that will be cohesive within the school community. It is difficult to enter into another professional's classroom and keep their rules and polices as they expect while staying true to one's own teaching personality and developing one's own policies. This has been true as I look at my experience thus far. I have had a hard time balancing my CT's guidelines and being my own person. With this, I have failed to set my own guidelines which, in turn, has given the students the impression that I am not my own teacher.
The reason I selected this goal is because clear behavior standards will allow the students to understand the consequences of their actions as well as provide a safe community in which students can learn without the distractions of safety insecurities (RIBTS 6.1 and 6.2). I would like to create a classroom that is conducive to learning. This goal is important to myself as a beginning teacher, and to the school I will be at. While at Narragansett Pier Middle School, I have witnessed their need for an effective behavior management program that is consistent across the school. To do this, I will need to implement the school rules along with my own class policies.
Based on what you have found out, write a 1-2 paragraph narrative outlining at least two ways (PD categories) you will engage in engage in by the end of your first year of teaching. For each activity, explain how you think it will address the need that you have identified.
II. Professional Development Plan
My first plan of action to improve my classroom management is to brainstorm the policies and rules that I find important for my classroom. The next step is to read through the school's students handbook and fully familiarize myself with the schools expectations. I will look at each of these separately and determine which coincide with the policies that I came up with on my own. It is easier to enforce the rules that I, myself, find important. Then I will look at the combination of all of the rules/policies and determine the importance of each. It is easier to enforce rules when you know why they are important for students to follow. It is also beneficial to inform students why they are important so that they know for future reference. This also tells students that you are serious about the behaviors that you expect.
To supplement my goal, there are several outside sources I can refer to. The first being Conferences, workshops, and training sessions relating to classroom management. Some that I found that would help are "Positive behavior supports", "Transforming Out of Control behaviors in children and adolescents", "YoGuides: Creating a calm classroom environment.", and "Introduction to social thinking". These workshops will help me get ideas about controlling my students in the classroom and creating a more positive and cohesive classroom. Outside of this, I would also utilize Individual Professional learning activities. I learn a lot by performing my own research and looking within. Not every classroom management strategy is effective for everyone, so looking within myself for this professional development will help me create strategies that will coincide with my own personality and teaching styles. These days, we have vast resources on the internet. My researching articles and studies about classroom management and behaviors on the internet, I can better achieve my goals. Lastly, It is important to remember that I am never done learning. Even when I think I have mastered my classroom management skills, there is always more to improve on. Every class is different and contains different children that respond better to different strategies, So it is important that I never end my journey into developing better classroom management skills.